CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD

DEVELOPMENT AND LEARNING

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
This theorist believed education should focus on the development of a child’s thinking and problem solving skills.
A
Bruner
B
Piaget
C
Skinner
D
Bandura
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Jerome Bruner, a cognitive psychologist, created a theory of development based upon the idea that the goal of education should be intellectual development. In this theory, he identified three modes of representation.

Detailed explanation-2: -Bruner’s learning theory suggests that it is efficacious, when faced with new material, to follow a progression from enactive to iconic to symbolic representation; this holds true even for adult learners.

Detailed explanation-3: -Jerome Bruner’s Theory of Development is based on the assumption that we learn best when we go from concrete to abstract in a three-step process: First comes hands-on “Action”, then learning with “Images” and finally students transform what they’ve learned into “Language”.

Detailed explanation-4: -Bruner developed a social science curriculum that was widely used during the 1960s and ‘70s. He also studied perception in children, concluding that children’s individual values significantly affect their perceptions. Bruner published extensively.

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